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Eight militants were killed today in the course of a special operation conducted near the village of Dattykh, Sunzha District of Ingushetia. The militants were killed "during an armed clashes with the use of artillery," said a police source.

Russian authorities shall eliminate injustice and immediately release the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and ecologist Alexander Kolchenko, said the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI).

In Azerbaijan, relatives of Emin Milli, the executive director of the online channel MeydanTV, who is abroad, have sent a collective appeal to the country's president, in which they condemn Milli for his critical attitude to the authorities' policies; the director himself believes that his relatives did it under pressure.

In the village of Baranovka, located in the resort city of Sochi, a gathering of citizens was held, who demanded from the LLC "Sochivodokanal" to immediately solve the problem of public drinking water outages.

The French company 'Hermes', engaged in production of fashion clothes, has made a line of scarves "Caucasian Horsemen". To start the line, employees of the company visited Nalchik and studied objects of national culture of Kabardians.

The movement "Arise, Armenia!" has condemned the actions of policemen, who prevent protesters against the increase in electricity tariff from occupying the mosaic stone carpet in the middle of the Republic Square in Yerevan. Activists have called the police to promote the peaceful picket.

The civil movement "Arise, Armenia!" has released a statement, which calls for resignation of the Commission on Regulation of Public Services and nationalization of Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "Electric Grids of Armenia".

Turkey's militaries have detained a law student from Dagestan in the Turkish province of Hatay, when he was going to cross the Syrian border with his three companions.

Sashik Sultanyan, the head of the public organization "Centre for Interethnic and Intercultural Cooperation", and Rustam Bakoyan, the head of the humanitarian organization "Shams", are holding a three-day hunger strike in front of the Yerevan Office of the United Nations.

Policemen pasted in central Yerevan photos of leaders of the movement "Arise, Armenia!" with inscription "Grant Eaters", activists have complained.

Relatives of Izmailov brothers, who were beaten up at the Beslan Airport, are ready to conclude a truce with the families of the initiators of the brawl, provided all the participants of the incident, including airport security guards, are fairly punished.

Activists of the "Youth Yabloko", who held solo pickets on July 31 in Moscow, believe that the inquiry into the murder of the journalist and rights defender Timur Kuashev has no prospects in Kabardino-Balkaria; it should be transferred to the federal level.

Local civil society activists have assessed the human rights situation in Azerbaijan as the worst in the last 20 years. Activists of the "Committee for Civil Society Protection" (CCSP) have decided to appeal to the country's authorities to take measures to restore the rights of political prisoners, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Employees of the special detention centre of Novocherkassk, where a detainee died, acted professionally, said the members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC). At the same time, as they noted, the ambulance arrived at the centre only 20 minutes after it was called.

Yusup Djaparov, Said Amirov's nephew, could not participate in the shelling of a shopping centre in Kaspiysk, because at that time he was in Moscow, his two friends told the court.

The police have questioned schoolchildren in the Sochi aul (village) Bolshoi Kichmay about the reasons for their participation in the mourning ceremonies to mark the anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War. This is another proof of the authorities' attempts to erase the memory about the tragic events of the war, Circassian activists assert.

Activists of the "Youth Yabloko" have held a series of solo pickets at the buildings of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), demanding to investigate the murder of Timur Kuashev, a journalist and social activist from Kabardino-Balkaria.

In the course of a search conducted in the office of Sagid Murtazaliev, the head of the branch of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) in Dagestan, suspected of financing terrorism, law enforcers behaved correctly and confiscated only Murtazaliev's sick leave and medical card history, said the PFR spokeswoman.

Investigating authorities of Dagestan have completed the inquiry into the case of a 25-year-old resident of the Untsukul District, accused of participation in an illegal armed formation (IAF).

The criminals were nicely familiar with the layout of the house of Takhir Guziev, the chief of staff of the Cherek ROVD (District Interior Division), who was shot dead in Nalchik; therefore, they manage to quickly find him in the household, investigators believe.